Russia: Moscow using facial recognition to keep a track on citizens amid lockdown

As per reports, thousands of residents of Moscow have been confined to ir homes for 14 days of compulsory quarantine after returning from virus-hit countries. Even those that have come in contact with those infected or those diagsed with mild symptoms have been forced into quarantine. authorities have warned m that breaking quarantine to enter city of 16 million residents could warrant a five-year jail term or deportation for foreigners. Moscow is using cameras with facial recognition to keep track of all of m.

Using techlogy to fight virus

According to reports, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin last month wrote in his blog that enforcement of quarantine was being closely monitored. Moscow alrey has a network of 170,000 security cameras, set up in streets and metro stations throughout city over past dece. Almost 1,00,000 of m have been linked to an artificial intelligence system that can identify people being filmed.

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According to reports, Moscow police have been able to identify around 200 people that broke quarantine thanks to cameras. In dition to cameras, Russia said that it was drawing on an array of techlogy to fight virus, including telemedicine consultations, real-time monitoring of supermarket shelves and identifying and removing false news stories from social media. Russia has reported 444 coronavirus cases and only one death. 20 people in Russia have alrey recovered from virus.

Fake news in Russia

Amidst Coronavirus outbreak, a series of fake news pertaining to pandemic has been circulating on internet. Recently, a news piece that Russian President Vlimir Putin has unleashed 500 lions on streets of Russia to force people to stay at home went viral online. Many social media users spre news that Vlimir Putin unleashed lions on streets to keep people isolated and confined to ir homes. Social media users were seen forwarding post without checking its aunticity. 

When in reality, Russia did t unleash lions on street to ensure that people here to lockdown and quarantine protocols, despite what various social media users and fake news outlets peddled.  pictures that were widely circulated on social media is of a lion in South Africa. picture is from back in year 2016 when lion was seen strolling streets in middle of night. lion was borrowed from a nearby lion park for filming purposes.

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